Re: eval-when-compile

[Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>]

PJ Weisberg writes:
> You know what you could do?
>
> ---
> (eval
>  (eval-when-compile
>    (if nil
>        '(defvar quoted-t "true")
>      '(defvar quoted-nil "false")))
> ---
>
> That'll compile to:
>
> ---
> (eval
>  '(defvar quoted-nil "false"))
> ---

Thanks.  I tried this and actually it compiles to just

(defvar quoted-nil "false")

as I expected my first variant to do.  I am not sure what the outer eval
is doing, though: it doesn't look like it is executed at compile-time,
so it must somehow be optimized away by the byte-compiler (some rule
that "(eval (quote <…>))" is identical to "<…>", perhaps?).


Regards,
Achim.
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